unitedhealthcare. >>> hello and welcome to "street signs." i'm brian sullivan, landfall in washington, d.c., the cannon rotunda. this is the house office building, and we've been here all day for "mission critical, rise above d.c." mandy, i walked all the way from cnbc last night just for the "street signs" viewers. i care. >> you better start walking so you're back in time for tomorrow's show. meantime let's have a look at what the darkts are doing. here is a great factoid for you. folks, with today's gains, major averages made up all of their losses since election day, which as we know was november 6th, a really nice meltup going on in the markets albeit on fairly light volume. find out what's going on with bob pisani. no fiscal cliff, markets don't care, vix doesn't care. >> up 5 1/2%. there's a lot of people, mandy, that think when we get the deal, that's what you take profits. fiscal cliff, that means awe sisterity. speaker of the house, john boehner said we're still negotiating. he specifically said where is the president on spending cu